20 December, 2011

Wow it is almost here - hope your list is as finished as mine. I decided I could not stand the hassle & stress so I did mine over the weekend & finished yesterday, except for wine. My family is very small so I am not a good as I am sounding.

Eila Sandberg, DT member at The Color Room, lives in Sweden & she sent me the link to her blog to share with me the cards she made from The Vintage Christmas Collection of Denise Ann - they are fabulous. Have a look at her blog. http://dollopsofscrap.blogspot.com/. These are her 4 cards - lots of tricky cutting & fabulous touches of glitter & snow

Adriana also shared with me 2 pics of projects she had made - a tag for TCR and a christmas card for my bloggers in blog world. I thought I would share them with you - I just love the turquoise & lace highlights on the tag & the card is truly beautiful - thanks Adriana for sharing them with me

Working on the next Collection - Le Belle Jardin - it is being featured on The Color Room in January.

http://www.megsgarden.com/ is the sponsor for January 2012 so you will be able to see lots of projects using the new Collection. Packs have been sent to the DT of TCR (The Color Room) and went out to our DT yesterday along with a package of pastel embellishments. They have not even been sent their challenge yet.

09 December, 2011

Gayle decided to spend the 'Summer in Paris' - at least with her projects. The bare bottomed lady is now fully dressed & ready for show. And she is so gorgeous & inspiring.

Here is Gayle's little "speech" about her projects:

The beautiful papers I have chosen from Meg's Garden are so pretty and so detailed, they stand alone. I have deliberately tried to use minimum, if any, embellishment with these projects as I think the papers speak for themselves and need very little enhancement.

Meg asked us to choose a theme with the word "Summer" in it..........

my theme is "Summer In Paris"

Firstly I have dressed a mannequin, very French and very fashionable at the moment, completely in paper from Meg's Garden and inspired by Marie Antoinette.

For my second project I made a bag, (of course you would need to go shopping while in Paris). It is however recycled from a brown paper shopping bag. I painted some cardboard in sage green and lined the bag to give it rigidity and then "voila!", transformed it with Meg's beautiful paper. I added some hand made flowers and velvet leaves and decorated the inside with beautiful lace.

For my third project I have made some vintage post-cards;you would after all have to send all your friends a post-card to say, "wish you were here". I have used lots of distressing, stamps, and inks, along with the beautiful collage papers from Meg's Garden.

PRODUCTS USED

DRESS:

Meg's Garden background papers:

Cartouche 3402, A French Bouquet 3400, Pink Passion 3407

Paper lace – white strip, mini squares

BAG:

Meg's Garden background papers:

Green Satin & Flowers P6270, French Garden 3404

Lace - 6.3cm off white

Mini sq paper doily

Pale antique velvet leaves, sm pink & green leaves

POST CARDS:

Meg's Garden A4 Collage papers:

Victorian Flower Oracle, Vintage Calling cards

Meg's Garden 12x12 Collage papers:

Regency Romance 3366

Meg's Garden Background papers

Chic Couture Flourish P6265,A French Collage label P6263:

Well done Gayle

Bye for now

Meg

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What a fabulous Summer in Paris Collection of projects - love your little 'speech' describing the how & why of your projects.

02 December, 2011

Her first 2 projects show summer fun at the beach as it was in the 1920's. Both of her projects are beautifully presented in frames which accentuate the textures & embellishments used on the papers.

Products used:

Vintage by the Sea 1027

Sea Charms Pack, muslin, odd ribbons, string & lace

Wild Flowers Field P6373﻿Ivory paper flowers & Ivory Rosebuds

Denise then left the beachside & went into her garden to have the rest of her 'Summer Fun'. Here she made another 2 OTP projects - the 1st one is a framed piece of art while the 2nd is a gorgeous covered diary.

Denise painted the scenes on the front cover, inside front & inside back - beautiful Monet colours.You will see more of her painting work on her next Collection - Le Belle Jardin. The Collection is a very elegant & pastel set of papers - the newsletter & blog will announce their arrival.

These projects are absolutely fabulous - well done Denise

I talked to Gayle on Monday & was told that her project had a 'bare bottom' & she needed more paper - very interesting!!!!!
Bye for now
Meg